Soviet Bus Stops poster

Soviet Bus Stops

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“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Estonian
  • photography
  • soviet union
  • architecture
  • decay
  • public transport
  • russia
  • brutalist

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Produced in

Canada, Denmark

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Still from Soviet Bus Stops

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Release dates

  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival2 Oct 2022
  • DenmarkDK

    • PremiereCPHDOX19 Mar 2023
  • Hong KongHK

    • PremiereMOViE MOViE: Life is Art 20231 Dec 2023
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereAllDMZ International Documentary Film Festival17 Sept 2023
  • TaiwanTW

    • Theatrical0+24 May 2024

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Soviet Bus Stops was released on 24 May 2024.

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